This year's Grand Prix should be the last

Food options at this year's Grand Prix of Baltimore will include a Taste of Maryland tent, featuring crab cakes, soft crab sandwiches, fried oysters, corn on the cob and other food associated with Maryland cuisine. The tent, which will be located near the trophy stage, is being organized by the event's concessionaire, the Severn-based Crown Foods. Baltimore restaurants are offering Grand Prix-related prix-fixe menus, happy hour specials and discounts. You can find most of them on the Grand Prix of Baltimore website, and we've rounded up what we think are the most tempting offers here.

That's entirely understandable. The race is horribly polluting, no only in terms of the offensive noise that it generates but also regarding the exhaust produced by the cars in a city known for a lack of good air circulation.

It is terribly disruptive to traffic and businesses in a major segment of the city of Baltimore. Few, if any, of the drivers are household names, and the event has even fewer redeeming virtues.

Let us hope that good sense prevails by making the 2013 race the last one in Baltimore.